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The Best Episodes of ER Season 10

Every episode of ER Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ER Season 10!

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Genre:Drama
Network:NBC

Season 10 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "ER" season 10 is "Now What?", rated 7.8/10 from 380 user votes. It was directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by John Wells. "Now What?" aired on 9/25/2003 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Lost".

  • Now What?
    7.8/10 380 votes

    #1 - Now What?

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2003

    Carter returns from Africa, going straight to Abby's bedside. Her response to seeing him is to ask for her key back. She is very chilly towards him all day until new med student Neela Rasgotra answers a phone call for Carter. The message: Luka is dead. Carter decides to go back to the Congo to bring the body back. Neela has a tough first day in the ER, earning Chen's ire after Pratt flirts with her. Gallant, now a full-fledged doctor, helps to show her the ropes.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: John Wells

  • The Lost
    8.4/10 584 votes

    #2 - The Lost

    Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2003

    John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.

    Director: Christopher Chulack, John Wells

    Writer: John Wells

  • Dear Abby
    7.9/10 395 votes

    #3 - Dear Abby

    Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2003

    Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter's letter to Abby.

    Director: Christopher Chulack

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Shifts Happen
    7.6/10 349 votes

    #4 - Shifts Happen

    Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2003

    Confident second-year resident Pratt wants to prove his abilities when he works the graveyard shift (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.), but his heroics sometimes backfire. Pratt shows contempt for a man, Ed Gamble, who presents no symptoms of disease but temporarily loses his speech.

    Director: Julie Hébert

    Writer: Dee Johnson

  • Out of Africa
    8.0/10 371 votes

    #5 - Out of Africa

    Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2003

    Ben Hollander is a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: David Zabel

  • The Greater Good
    7.6/10 344 votes

    #6 - The Greater Good

    Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2003

    Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman, Denny, who arrives to deliver a premature baby. Pratt wants to make heroic efforts to save the unborn child, while Kovac is adamantly against spending vast amounts of money to keep the forever sickly baby alive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Death and Taxes
    8.0/10 352 votes

    #7 - Death and Taxes

    Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2003

    To everyone's amazement, Lewis makes a date to share a home-cooked dinner with the elderly Ben Hollander, her depressed patient who is going blind.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: Dee Johnson

  • Freefall
    8.6/10 559 votes

    #8 - Freefall

    Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2003

    On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured, and kills Dr. Romano. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.

    Director: Christopher Chulack

    Writer: Joe Sachs

  • Missing
    7.5/10 339 votes

    #9 - Missing

    Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2003

    Neela helps treat two Amish teens who were in a car crash. Sam argues with Dr. Kovac when he pays too much attention to her son.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: David Zabel

  • Makemba
    7.6/10 384 votes

    #10 - Makemba

    Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2003

    Dr. Carter celebrates Christmas at a clinic in the Congo dealing with low supplies and anti-Americanism, but in the meantime, falling for an AIDS worker named Makemba.

    Director: Christopher Chulack

    Writer: John Wells

  • Touch and Go
    7.5/10 334 votes

    #11 - Touch and Go

    Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2004

    Carter returns to County General to hearty welcomes. Although Abby is shocked to learn that Carter's beautiful African girlfriend, Kem, is already pregnant with Carter's child, Abby has moved on with her life as well, going back to medical school.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Mark Morocco

  • NICU
    8.0/10 377 votes

    #12 - NICU

    Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2004

    Abby and Neela are assigned to a month-long rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit where they experience emotional roller coasters while caring for the sick infants.

    Director: Laura Innes

    Writer: Lisa Zwerling

  • Get Carter
    7.6/10 351 votes

    #13 - Get Carter

    Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2004

    Dr. Carter's girlfriend makes an impression as she observes ER operations. Dr. Gallant is almost shot during a domestic incident. Dr. Weaver dedicates a center to the memory of Dr. Romano.

    Director: Lesli Linka Glatter

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Impulse Control
    7.7/10 337 votes

    #14 - Impulse Control

    Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/2004

    Sam treats an abused, pregnant teen. Dr. Carter introduces African girlfriend Makemba to wintertime. ER chaos shocks a risk-assessment expert. Dr. Pratt and Abby restrain a man who has tuberculosis.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: Yahlin Chang

  • Blood Relations
    7.7/10 328 votes

    #15 - Blood Relations

    Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2004

    Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace--forcing the claustrophobic Neela to accompany a newborn baby into an extremely uncomfortable hyperbaric chamber.

    Director: Nelson McCormick

    Writer: Dee Johnson

  • Forgive and Forget
    8.0/10 367 votes

    #16 - Forgive and Forget

    Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/2004

    Morris streets a patient without getting a psych consult, and the guy steals a tank and heads for County. Gillian is visiting Luka, and Sam's not happy about it. Luka and Sam make up by the end of the day though. A 13-year-old boy has chlamydia. Frank has a heart attack. Corday plays the dating game, going out with two men.

    Director: Christopher Chulack

    Writer: Bruce Miller

  • The Student
    7.7/10 330 votes

    #17 - The Student

    Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/2004

    Carter sticks up for Neela when the other attendings doubt her future in the ER. Neela caves to the pressure and accidentally gives a patient the wrong medication. Gallant takes the blame for her though. Sam and Luka try to plan Alex's birthday party. Frank visits on his way to therapy. Chen's home nurse quits after her dad behaves poorly.

    Director: Paul McCrane

    Writer: David Zabel

  • Where There's Smoke
    8.0/10 438 votes

    #18 - Where There's Smoke

    Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 4/8/2004

    Weaver rushes to the aid of her female life partner, Sandy Lopez, when the firefighter is severely injured while working and must now battle for her life. Frightened Weaver whispers hope to Sandy by reminding the victim of their newborn child.

    Director: Tawnia McKiernan

    Writer: Jacy Young

  • Just a Touch
    7.6/10 333 votes

    #19 - Just a Touch

    Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2004

    Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment. Abby ponders how to get her contentious patients' attention during her psychiatric department rotation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Abby Normal
    7.8/10 330 votes

    #20 - Abby Normal

    Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2004

    A panic-stricken Weaver is ordered to give her son to the Lopez family. Carter greets the returning Kem, but their meeting with his father, Jack, gets tense after Carter announces plans for his grandmother's estate.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: David Zabel

  • Midnight
    8.4/10 420 votes

    #21 - Midnight

    Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2004

    Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.

    Director: Julie Hébert

    Writer: John Wells

  • Drive
    7.9/10 344 votes

    #22 - Drive

    Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2004

    Kovacs stops to help a woman and her son whose car broke down. Steve is getting close to Alex, and Sam panics. Abby is looking for her letter whether to see she passed her boards. Pratt shows off his new Chrysler. Elgin tries to build a connection between him and Pratt. Jing-Mei might be battered by her senile father.

    Director: Jonathan Kaplan

    Writer: Dee Johnson